"You may want to hold your breath."
—Kellyg, merrow aquitect

Aquitect's Will

Put a flood counter on target land. That land is an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it. If you control a Merfolk, draw a card.

Kindred is a card type that allows noncreature cards to have creature types. For example, Echoes of Eternity is an Eldrazi (although not a creature) while on the battlefield and an Eldrazi card (although not a creature card) in zones other than the battlefield.

This cards was originally printed with the "tribal" card type. That card type has been replaced with "kindred". This change does not affect the gameplay function of this card.

While it appears only on cards that already have other card types, kindred is a card type and will be counted by effects that refer to the number of card types among cards in a zone.

The goblins made an unruly pile with military precision.

Battle Squadron

Flying
Battle Squadron's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control.

Battle Squadron’s last ability applies in all zones. While it’s on the battlefield, it counts itself, so it’ll be at least 1/1.

Once, water ran here. Now only dust and ash fall from the clifftops.

Blighted Cataract

{T}: Add {C} to your mana pool.
{5}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice Blighted Cataract: Draw two cards.

{T}: Add {C}.
{5}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice Blighted Cataract: Draw two cards.

The land is dying, but it will not go peacefully.

Blighted Gorge

{T}: Add {C} to your mana pool.
{4}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice Blighted Gorge: Blighted Gorge deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice Blighted Gorge: It deals 2 damage to any target.

He has the biggest bashing stick, so it's a safe bet he's the leader.

Boggart Brute

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Once an attacking creature with menace is legally blocked by two or more creatures, removing one or more of those blockers from combat won’t change or undo that block.

"In my early experiments in phylactery, I found that fragile forms have their uses."
—Rocati, Duke of Martyne

Brittle Effigy

{4}, {T}, Exile Brittle Effigy: Exile target creature.

Brittle Effigy is exiled as a cost to activate its ability, not as part of its effect. If the targeted creature is an illegal target by the time the ability would resolve, the ability doesn’t resolve, but Brittle Effigy remains exiled.

It's not the size of the rock. It's how badly you want to lift it.

Brute Strength

Target creature gets +3/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

Claustrophobia

Enchant creature
When Claustrophobia enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Claustrophobia can target and enchant a tapped or untapped creature.

The enchanted creature can still be untapped in other ways. Claustrophobia will remain attached, and the creature will continue to not untap during its controller’s untap step.

Enchant creature
When Claustrophobia enters, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Cleaver Riot

Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn.

Cleaver Riot affects only creatures you control at the time it resolves. It won’t affect creatures that come under your control later in the turn.

Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. (They deal both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

She follows the old tributaries built when merrows still shaped the tides.

Cold-Eyed Selkie

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever Cold-Eyed Selkie deals combat damage to a player, you may draw that many cards.

"The treasure in my mind is greater than any worldly glory."

Concentrate

Flurk's crude goblin language didn't differentiate between "I *bring* the flame" and "I *am* the flame."

Ember Hauler

{1}, Sacrifice Ember Hauler: Ember Hauler deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

{1}, Sacrifice Ember Hauler: It deals 2 damage to any target.

"The tides have begun to ignore the moon."
—Tamiyo's journal

Engulf the Shore

Return to their owners' hands all creatures with toughness less than or equal to the number of Islands you control.

"What you attempt to pull from the aether, I can spread onto the wind."
—Jace Beleren

Essence Scatter

A “creature spell” is any spell with the type creature, even if it has other types such as artifact or enchantment. Older cards of type summon are also creature spells.

Forgotten Cave

Forgotten Cave enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {R} to your mana pool.
Cycling {R} ({R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Forgotten Cave enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.
Cycling {R} ({R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

After the Foundry Street riot, Arrester Hulbein tried to ban bludgeons. Which, inevitably, resulted in another riot.

Foundry Street Denizen

Whenever another red creature enters the battlefield under your control, Foundry Street Denizen gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Whenever another red creature you control enters, Foundry Street Denizen gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Gempalm Incinerator

Cycling {1}{R} ({1}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Gempalm Incinerator, you may have it deal X damage to target creature, where X is the number of Goblins on the battlefield.

The cycling ability and the triggered ability are separate. If the triggered ability doesn't resolve (because, for example, it has been countered, or all of its targets have become illegal), the cycling ability will still resolve, and you'll draw a card.

When you cycle this card, first the cycling ability goes on the stack, then the triggered ability goes on the stack on top of it. The triggered ability will resolve before you draw a card from the cycling ability.

You can cycle this card even if there are no legal targets for the triggered ability.

Only those gifted with the eye of Ugin, the spirit dragon, can see his fiery breath.

Ghostfire

Ghostfire is colorless.
Ghostfire deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Ghostfire is colorless in all zones. Its damage comes from a colorless source.

Ghostfire is colorless.
Ghostfire deals 3 damage to any target.

Goblin Charbelcher

{3}, {T}: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card. Goblin Charbelcher deals damage equal to the number of nonland cards revealed this way to target creature or player. If the revealed land card was a Mountain, Goblin Charbelcher deals double that damage instead. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

If you reveal no land cards, Goblin Charbelcher deals damage equal to the number of cards revealed, and then you may order your library as you like.

You must choose a target for Goblin Charbelcher's ability as you activate it, before you reveal any cards.

{3}, {T}: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card. Goblin Charbelcher deals damage equal to the number of nonland cards revealed this way to any target. If the revealed land card was a Mountain, Goblin Charbelcher deals double that damage instead. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

Goblin Chieftain

Haste
Other Goblin creatures you control get +1/+1 and have haste.

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)
Other Goblin creatures you control get +1/+1 and have haste.

When you need to convey that special kind of message.

Goblin Diplomats

{T}: Each creature attacks this turn if able.

Creatures that enter the battlefield (or noncreature permanents that become creatures) after the ability resolves are affected by the ability and must attack if able.

If, during a player’s declare attackers step, a creature is tapped, is affected by a spell or ability that says it can’t attack, or hasn’t been under that player’s control continuously since the turn began (and doesn’t have haste), then it doesn’t attack. If there’s a cost associated with having a creature attack, the player isn’t forced to pay that cost, so it doesn’t have to attack in that case either.

The controller of each creature still decides which player or planeswalker that creature attacks.

Goblin Glory Chaser

Renown 1 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it becomes renowned.)
As long as Goblin Glory Chaser is renowned, it has menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

If a creature with renown deals combat damage to its controller because that damage was redirected, renown will trigger.

If a renown ability triggers, but the creature leaves the battlefield before that ability resolves, the creature doesn’t become renowned. Any ability that triggers “whenever a creature becomes renowned” won’t trigger.

Renown won’t trigger when a creature deals combat damage to a planeswalker or another creature. It also won’t trigger when a creature deals noncombat damage to a player.

Goblin Goon

Goblin Goon can't attack unless you control more creatures than defending player.
Goblin Goon can't block unless you control more creatures than attacking player.

Don't underestimate the aerodynamic qualities of the common goblin.

Goblin Grenade

As an additional cost to cast Goblin Grenade, sacrifice a Goblin.
Goblin Grenade deals 5 damage to target creature or player.

You can't sacrifice more than one Goblin to get a greater effect.

Players can only respond once Goblin Grenade has been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try and destroy the Goblin to prevent you from casting Goblin Grenade.

The Goblin you sacrifice to cast Goblin Grenade doesn't have to be a creature. For example, you could sacrifice Boggart Shenanigans (a kindred enchantment with the subtype Goblin).

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a Goblin.
Goblin Grenade deals 5 damage to any target.

Goblin Rabblemaster

Other Goblin creatures you control attack each turn if able.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token with haste.
Whenever Goblin Rabblemaster attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking Goblin.

Although Goblin Rabblemaster doesn’t force itself to attack, if you control two of them, they’ll force each other to attack if able.

If, during your declare attackers step, a creature that must attack if able is tapped, is affected by a spell or ability that says it can’t attack, or hasn’t been under your control continuously since the turn began (and doesn’t have haste), then it doesn’t attack. If there’s a cost associated with having a creature attack, you’re not forced to pay that cost, so it doesn’t have to attack in that case either.

The number of attacking Goblins is counted as the last ability resolves, and the bonus is locked in at that time.

Other Goblin creatures you control attack each combat if able.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token with haste.
Whenever Goblin Rabblemaster attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking Goblin.

Finding themselves in a new and unexplored world, they immediately set it on fire.

Goblin Razerunners

{1}{R}, Sacrifice a land: Put a +1/+1 counter on Goblin Razerunners.
At the beginning of your end step, you may have Goblin Razerunners deal damage equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on it to target player.

If Goblin Razerunners leaves the battlefield after its ability triggers but before it resolves, the amount of damage it deals is equal to the number of +1/+1 counters that were on it as it last existed on the battlefield.

You don't count how many +1/+1 counters are on Goblin Razerunners until its triggered ability resolves.

{1}{R}, Sacrifice a land: Put a +1/+1 counter on Goblin Razerunners.
At the beginning of your end step, you may have Goblin Razerunners deal damage equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on it to target player or planeswalker.

Goblin Ringleader

Haste
When Goblin Ringleader enters the battlefield, reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all Goblin cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

If an effect refers to a “[subtype] spell” or “[subtype] card,” it refers only to a spell or card that has that subtype. For example, Goblin Gathering is a card that creates Goblins and features Goblins in its illustration, but it isn’t a Goblin card.

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)
When Goblin Ringleader enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all Goblin cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"The best way over the mountain is through."

Goblin Tunneler

{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

The ability doesn’t grant an ability to the targeted creature. Rather, it affects the game rules and states something that’s now true about that creature. After the ability resolves, the creature can’t be blocked that turn even if it loses all abilities.

The power of the targeted creature is checked both as you target it and as the ability resolves. After the ability resolves, the creature can’t be blocked that turn even if its power becomes greater than 2.

"A true warrior fights with whatever's handy."
—Qerk of the Secret Warren

Goblin Wardriver

Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.)

Harbinger of the Tides

You may cast Harbinger of the Tides as though it had flash if you pay {2} more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)
When Harbinger of the Tides enters the battlefield, you may return target tapped creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

You may cast Harbinger of the Tides as though it had flash if you pay {2} more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)
When Harbinger of the Tides enters, you may return target tapped creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

"Leave no scraps, lest you attract pests."
—Mardu threat

Hordeling Outburst

Create three 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.

Inkfathom Divers

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
When Inkfathom Divers enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
When Inkfathom Divers enters, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Island

Goblins are eager to follow orders, especially when those orders involve stealing, hurting, annoying, eating, destroying, or swearing.

Krenko's Command

Create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.

"He displays a perverse charisma fueled by avarice. Highly dangerous. Recommend civil sanctions."
—Agmand Sarv, Azorius hussar

Krenko, Mob Boss

{T}: Create X 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens, where X is the number of Goblins you control.

The ability counts each Goblin you control, including Krenko itself, not just the tokens it creates.

Lonely Sandbar

Lonely Sandbar enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U} to your mana pool.
Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not.

Lonely Sandbar enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Master of Waves

Protection from red
Elemental creatures you control get +1/+1.
When Master of Waves enters the battlefield, create a number of 1/0 blue Elemental creature tokens equal to your devotion to blue. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Barring other effects, the Elemental tokens will enter the battlefield as 2/1 creatures.

Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).

If Master of Waves leaves the battlefield, and nothing else is raising the toughness of the Elemental tokens above 0, the Elemental tokens will die and subsequently cease to exist.

If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it's still on the battlefield at that time.

Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.

Numeric mana symbols ({0}, {1}, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.

Use your devotion to blue as the triggered ability resolves to determine how many tokens are put onto the battlefield. If Master of Waves is still on the battlefield at that time, its mana cost will count toward your devotion to blue.

Protection from red
Elemental creatures you control get +1/+1.
When Master of Waves enters, create a number of 1/0 blue Elemental creature tokens equal to your devotion to blue. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

"Let the land dwellers know the coast is no longer the border between our realms. A new age of empire has begun."

Master of the Pearl Trident

Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1 and have islandwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Because damage remains marked on a creature until the damage is removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to a Merfolk you control may become lethal if Master of the Pearl Trident leaves the battlefield during that turn.

Merfolk don't always know what they're looking for, but they're certain once they find it.

Merfolk Looter

You can't do anything in between drawing a card and discarding a card, including casting or cycling the card you drew.

"Be like the sea: flow around that which is unmovable; for everything else, crash into it unrelentingly."

Merfolk Sovereign

Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1.
{T}: Target Merfolk creature can't be blocked this turn.

To have any effect, Merfolk Sovereign's activated ability must be activated before the declare blockers step begins. Once a Merfolk has become blocked, activating Merfolk Sovereign's ability won't change that.

Merfolk Wayfinder

Flying
When Merfolk Wayfinder enters the battlefield, reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all Island cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

If there are three or fewer cards in your library, you’ll reveal all of them.

Flying
When Merfolk Wayfinder enters, reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all Island cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Steady and silent as the deep current, the reejerey guides the course of the school.

Merrow Reejerey

Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a Merfolk spell, you may tap or untap target permanent.

Fragments of thought refract and multiply, surging in a geyser of dizzying insight.

Mind Spring

Misdirection

You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay Misdirection's mana cost.
Change the target of target spell with a single target.

If there is no other legal target for the spell, this does not change the target.

Once the spell resolves, the new target is considered to be targeted by the deflected spell. This will trigger any effects which trigger on being targeted.

The target of a spell that targets another spell on the stack can be changed to any other spell on the stack, even if the new target will resolve before the spell does.

This does not check if the current target is legal. It just checks if the spell has a single target.

This only targets the spell being changed, not the original or new target of the spell it is affecting.

You can choose to make a spell on the stack target this spell (if such a target choice would be legal had the spell been cast while this spell was on the stack). The new target for the deflected spell is not chosen until this spell resolves. This spell is still on the stack when new targets are selected for the spell.

You can’t make a spell which is on the stack target itself.

You choose the spell to target on announcement, but you pick the new target for that spell on resolution.

You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Change the target of target spell with a single target.

Mountain

Relentless Assault

Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.

A creature that must attack each turn, must only attack once that turn. It is not forced into each attack that turn.

Abilities that trigger when a creature attacks, blocks, or is blocked will trigger during each combat that turn. Thus, a creature with Rampage will get the bonus added during each attack.

If you manage to cast this during a main phase of your opponent's turn, that opponent's creatures will untap and that opponent will be able to attack again. It will not allow you to attack during their turn.

It only creates an additional combat and main phase if it resolves during a main phase.

"Bitter water, vicious wave;
Shadow-cold shallows, root-made maze.
Home's angry embrace."
—*Rootwater Saga*

Rootwater Hunter

{T}: Rootwater Hunter deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

{T}: Rootwater Hunter deals 1 damage to any target.

Kapsho merfolk have infiltrated fortresses as remote as the desert citadel in Sunari in their relentless quest for arcane knowledge.

Scroll Thief

Whenever Scroll Thief deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

The ability is mandatory. You must draw a card when it resolves.

The ability triggers just once each time Scroll Thief deals combat damage to a player, regardless of how much damage it deals.

Streambed Aquitects

{T}: Target Merfolk creature gets +1/+1 and gains islandwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
{T}: Target land becomes an Island until end of turn.

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Battle Squadron	Creature	$0.05 ^(0.05)
Blighted Cataract	Land	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Blighted Gorge	Land	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Boggart Brute	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Brittle Effigy	Artifact	$0.08 ^(0.00)
Brute Strength	Instant	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Claustrophobia	Enchantment	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Cleaver Riot	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Cold-Eyed Selkie	Creature	$0.10 ^(0.00)
Concentrate	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Ember Hauler	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Engulf the Shore	Instant	$0.15 ^(0.15)
Essence Scatter	Instant	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Forgotten Cave	Land	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Foundry Street Denizen	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Gempalm Incinerator	Creature	$0.05 ^(-0.05)
Ghostfire	Instant	$0.02 ^(-0.02)
Goblin Charbelcher	Artifact	$0.25 ^(0.00)
Goblin Chieftain	Creature	$3.00 ^(3.00)
Goblin Diplomats	Creature	$0.08 ^(-0.08)
Goblin Glory Chaser	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Goblin Goon	Creature	$0.10 ^(0.00)
Goblin Grenade	Sorcery	$0.15 ^(0.15)
Goblin Rabblemaster	Creature	$0.10 ^(0.10)
Goblin Razerunners	Creature	$0.10 ^(0.00)
Goblin Ringleader	Creature	$0.15 ^(-0.15)
Goblin Tunneler	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Goblin Wardriver	Creature	$0.05 ^(0.05)
Harbinger of the Tides	Creature	$0.08 ^(0.08)
Hordeling Outburst	Sorcery	$0.05 ^(0.05)
Inkfathom Divers	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Island	Land	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Island	Land	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Island	Land	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Island	Land	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Krenko's Command	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Krenko, Mob Boss	Creature	$0.25 ^(0.25)
Lonely Sandbar	Land	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Master of Waves	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Master of the Pearl Trident	Creature	$1.50 ^(1.50)
Merfolk Looter	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Merfolk Sovereign	Creature	$0.08 ^(0.08)
Merfolk Wayfinder	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Merrow Reejerey	Creature	$0.15 ^(0.15)
Mind Spring	Sorcery	$0.10 ^(0.00)
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Mountain	Land	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Mountain	Land	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Mountain	Land	$0.02 ^(0.00)

Duel Decks: Merfolk vs. Goblins